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The Queen Bee of Bidenomics
The best dinner party I’ve attended all year took place at a conference held at the foot of the Golden Gate Bridge, overlooking the San Francisco Bay. It was a family-style meal, arranged to make you ask the person sitting next to you to please pass ...
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The Israeli Hostage Rescue, and the Cost
More from our inbox: Trump Is Unfit to Serve, No Psychiatric Diagnosis NeededJohn Roberts’s Destructive LegacyPlugging Abandoned Oil WellsA Monarch Butterfly MemorialAndrey Kozlov, center, and Almog Meir Jan, second from the right, two of four ...
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World
A Way Back from Campus Chaos
Protesting the world’s wrongs has been a rite of passage for generations of American youth, buoyed by our strong laws protecting free speech and free assembly. Yet the students and other demonstrators disrupting college campuses this spring are being ...
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U.S.-Funded Broadcaster Leaves Hong Kong, Citing Security Law
Radio Free Asia, which ran a small operation in Hong Kong, said its staff was at risk because of the law’s sweeping definition of “external interference.”
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Hong Kongers Are Purging the Evidence of Their Lost Freedom
“What should I do with those copies of Apple Daily?” Someone in Hong Kong who I was chatting with on the phone recently had suddenly dropped her voice to ask that question, referring to the pro-democracy newspaper that the government forced to shut ...
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Indiana Law Requires Professors to Promote ‘Intellectual Diversity’ or Face Penalties
Faculty members in public universities could be disciplined or fired, even those with tenure, if they are found to fall short of the new requirements.
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Universities Need to Stick to Their Mission
For over a century, an understanding existed between American universities and the rest of the country. Universities educated the nation’s future citizens in whatever ways they saw fit. Their faculty determined what kind of research to carry out and ...
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Business
Brian Mulroney Divided and Reshaped Canada Through Free Trade With the U.S.
The former prime minister, who died this week, brought dramatic changes, good and bad, to the country’s economy with the pact.
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The 17th-Century Heretic We Could Really Use Now
The Enlightenment philosopher Baruch Spinoza almost died for his ideals one day in 1672. Spinoza, a Sephardic Jew born in Amsterdam in 1632, was a passionate and outspoken defender of freedom, tolerance and moderation. And so when Johan de Witt, the ...
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Arts
The Fight Over Academic Freedom
Amid spiraling campus speech debates, many professors are rallying in defense of a bedrock principle. But can they agree on just what it means?